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THE COLLEGE RECORD. 31 higher institutions. In the public schools the graduating class was 28 per cent, of the entering class, while in the private schools the percentage was 77. From the public schools 47 per cent, of the graduates entered higher institutions, while from the private schools 73 per cent, entered. The points which have been considered in the foregoing have seemed to be tolerably clear. There are many lesser differences between the two schools, but the writer is not dis- posed to enter upon their discussion. Since the province of this article was simply a comparison of the two systems, not an attempt to establish the superiority of either, the writer is inclined to draw no conclusions in closing. It is his belief that each institution should strive to develop those elements of peculiar strength that are inherent in it; that it should acknowledge its peculiar weaknesses, and try to reduce them ; that it should frankly recognize the pe- culiar advantages of the other class of schools, even while urging its own claims for students. Attempt has been made to show some of the limitations and some of the advantages of each system, and if injustice has been done to either the fault is of the head, not of the heart.
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30 THE COLLEGE RECORD. public schools, not so much on account of the salaries or of the work in itself, but because the institution has come to have a hold on them that they are unwilling to break. The fact that the school demands and needs more makes the teachers and officers willing to give more. We come to love those that we minister to. For these reasons the pri- vate schools seem to be in a position to receive more from their teachers than can the public schools. These facts in- dicate that the private school is more stable in its character also. A private school which was a good school a year ago is more apt to be still a good school. For the same reason a private school which has fallen into bad condition should be looked upon with suspicion until radical changes have been observed which can change the evil conditions for wholesome ones. The matter of keeping records is another in which there seems to be some difference between the two schools. From the replies to the questions sent out on this point, and from experience in collecting evidence of the preparatory work of students the writer is inclined to believe that private schools generally keep a better system of records than pub- lic schools. In New York State there has been too strong tendency to depend entirely on the Regents examinations for records of the pupil's standing. These register the results of the work, but ca n hardly be considered a satisfac- tory record of it. The constant shifting of principals in the public schools tends to looseness and variability in the matter of records. In the schools reported for this article every private school makes permanent record of standings every term, while only about half of the public schools re- ported do SO. Also the number of private schools which make entries in the records at shorter intervals, as by months or weeks, is larger than the number of public - hools whi li do this. This is important, as the record of work not passed in state examinations often becomes of great importance to the student. Prom the institutions considered came some interesting fig- ures in regard to the relation in size between the entering and the graduating classes, and the proportion of graduates in
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